in virginia, maryland and even japan. to his students, kevin ricks was a popular teacher who went out of his way to befriend them. to prosecutors and the officers who investigated him, ricks is a serial predator. >> this case is a chilling reminder to parents and kids that sometimes the face of evil is the familiar and the everyday, and sometimes even seemingly respected role models. >> reporter: the guilty plea to seven counts of possession and production of child pornography. ricks was a teenager himself, a 19-year-old virginia counselor a virginia summer camp when he set his sights on his first victim, a deaf boy. >> his first victim was an 11-year-old deaf boy at a camp for disabled kids. whose parents were going through a divorce, who didn't have a place to live. and mr. ricks invited him to his home, ostensibly to host him. and then abused him. >> reporter: the pattern was repeated over and over. when ricks was in college, when he moved to japan to teach. in federalsburg, maryland, where he abused the foreign exchange students he hosted and finally as a teacher in manassas when a paren
